Posted on 11/15/2015 5:17:21 AM PST by george76
Environmental Protection Agency officials require contractors to sign secrecy pledges that in the case of the Gold King Mine spill kept the public in the dark earlier this year about a Colorado mining disaster that turned waters yellow as they flowed through two states and the Navajo Nation.
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these secrecy clauses are typical with the EPA - the same government agency whose former administrator, Lisa Jackson, used an alias email address to avoid public scrutiny.
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the EPA controls the flow of information by circumventing federal regulations that dictate when an agency can use non-disclosure clauses by including secrecy agreements in documents related to, but separate from contracts.
While NDAs often protect important government secrets, such agreements can also obstruct official accountability at critical times.
As a result, important details about the Aug. 5, 2015, environmental disaster near Silverton, Colorado, remain hidden nearly three months later. Taxpayers would not even know the identity of the firm but for reporting by the Wall Street Journal that was based on a leak from an anonymous EPA official.
The spill occurred while an EPA official and company personnel were working at the site and sent a flood of mining waste, including toxic materials like cadmium, lead and arsenic, into the water sources for people living in Colorado, Utah and New Mexico, as well as the Navajo Nation.
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the "most transparent" administration in history is signing their largest contractors to hush agreements
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government agencies have used NDAs to silence whistle-blowers.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
These people (the EPA) are so out and out corrupt. They have so much power now they don’t care what they look like to the taxpayers.
A rogue and lawless agency that must be eliminated.
One of many.
If the EPA had done this when a Republican was president, a lawsuit would immediately be filed in federal court by the Sierra Club or the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the filing of this lawsuit would be trumpeted by the MSM in the same breath as the story about the secrecy.
This was foretold in the epic documentary “The Yellow River” by I.P. Freeley....
Sad prognistication....
Note to Trump/Cruz: Shitcan the EPA day one.
The offending concentrate was punished with millions of dollars with more contracts.
The Sierra Club has blown a big chance to prove they are not a partisan, anti-capitalist, envirowhacko group by ignoring what they would call their duty if this happened during a Republican administration.
They do not care about the environment, they only care about “progress”.
This was foretold in the epic documentary “The Yellow River†by I.P. Freeley....
You are mistaken, the author would be I.P. Daley.
The first Department to shut down under a new administration. Corrupt, incompetent and harmful to America.
Another good read: Rusty Bedsprings by I P Nightly.
Also, “Elementary” by N.S. Sherlock
They’re twins?
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